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Often when I connect with my fellow professional colleagues, there is one topic which always gets discussed, the behaviors of children. The negative and challenging behaviors are what gets discussed most often and how it affects the classroom dynamic, the other children, the relationships…
Category: Outdoor Classroom, UncategorizedTags: challenging behaviors, Curriculum, early childhood education, ece, emergent, emergent curriculum, environment, expulsion, family child care, maine, Nature, nature classroom, nature explore, Outdoor, outdoor clsassroom, place based education, preschool, social emotional
Posted on February 5, 2019 by MomShunk
Playdough might be the most perfect universal material for the early childhood classroom. It is so versatile! Here’s a great way to scaffold the learning of the children in your early education programs. For younger students, math is still an abstract concept. Being able…
Posted on July 25, 2018 by Brendle Johnson
Do you find scraps of paper collecting endlessly and tell yourself they are for a project or that the kids will use them eventually? Well, Eventually has come! With just a few handfuls of ripped paper we made over 20 pieces of paper in…
Category: Curriculum, Outdoor ClassroomTags: activity, art, child care, coloring, Curriculum, DIY, family child care, homemade paper, Nature, paper, preschool, preschool activity, Recycle
Posted on June 5, 2018 by MomShunk
Death is never an easy topic to talk about. It is especially overwhelming to think about explaining death to a young child. Here are some of the ways we have dealt with and explained death to the children of the childcare. Gardening is where…
Category: CurriculumTags: community, cope, Curriculum, death, die, dying, emergent, funeral, garden, gardening, greiving, lifecycle, margaretwisebrown, patriciakarst, pet, pets, thedeadbird, theinvisiblestring
